The 28th annual IFP Gotham Awards offered a few surprises to kick off awards season, honoring dark horse The Rider as Best Feature, its only win of the night. First Reformed and Eighth Grade each took a pair of competitive awards. The Favourite had ample presence, taking home a previously announced ensemble acting…

The two A24 films presented today during The Contenders LA program were wildly different projects — Hereditary is a harrowing psychological tale that slides into supernatural horror while Eighth Grade is a coming-of-age tale that tugs at the heart ‚ but on closer inspection, the pair do share some common…

EXCLUSIVE: Ari Aster's debut feature Hereditary premiered in the Midnight section of Sundance back in January to unanimously positive response and has now become the biggest worldwide grossing movie ever for A24. With $77.5 million at the global box office, the low-budget horror is the third in-house production for…

4th UPDATE, Sunday AM: Warner Bros./Village Roadshow’s Ocean’s 8 is sailing in with a $41.5M opening, still the best debut for the franchise and a solid start for what will be a good piece of counter-programming in the event-filled marketplace. When it comes to gender-swapping an established franchise, it’s also safe…

Before Disney/Pixar’s Incredibles 2 and Universal’s Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom arrive to stomp and completely own the June landscape, Warner Bros/Village Roadshow’s gender twist Ocean’s 8 is poised to be a solid piece of counter-programming at the summer box office. Warner Bros. is estimating low to mid-$30 mil…

EXCLUSIVE: A24 is re-teaming with Hereditary helmer Ari Aster to produce and fully finance his next untitled horror project, sources said. The film will be A24's largest production to date, with an expected production start of late summer/early fall 2018. Lars Knudsen and B Reel will also produce. The plot is being…

A trip to the movies to see Peter Rabbit turned into a horror show for kids in Australia. The trailer for A24 horror film Hereditary was shown before a screening Wednesday of Peter Rabbit at Event Cinemas in Innaloo. “It was dreadful” an audience member told the Sydney Morning Herald.”Very quickly you could tell this…

Writer/director Ari Aster has seemingly hit a home run with his directorial debut film, Hereditary, which is currently at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer. After the film’s late night screening at SXSW, Aster, along with cast members, Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolff, paid a visit to Deadline’s Austin Studio. “The…

Creepy dollhouses, creepier kids, ghosts in the windows and what looks to be some sort of spontaneous combustion — here’s a first look at Hereditary, the horror pic that had Sundance buzzing. Written and directed by Ari Aster, A24’s Hereditary stars Toni Collette, Gabriel Byrne, Ann Dowd, Milly Shapiro and Alex Wolff…

EXCLUSIVE: WME has signed writer-director Ari Aster, whose feature directorial debut Hereditary bowed last night in the Sundance Film Festival’s Midnight section. The genre pic, which stars Toni Collette and Gabriel Byrne and received strong response at the premiere, is set up at A24. Aster’s previous credits include…